Elected: 1998
Year of death: 2018
Professor Arnold Trevor Tolley was born in Birmingham and educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham and Queen’s College Oxford. He taught at a number of universities including as professor of Comparative Literature at Carleton University in Canada (1967-1996). He has published a number of books on Larkin including Larkin at Work (1997) a detailed study of all of Philip Larkin’s Workbooks and Early Poems and Juvenilia, by Philip Larkin (2005).
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
